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Estimate for year
ended 25th March,
1889.
Estimate for year
to be ended 25th
March. 1892.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Maintenance of Schools provided by the
Board :—
A. Day Schools
1.044.898
17
4
1,335,800
0
0
B. Evening Classes
10,400
0
0
0
27,550
0
0
School Buildings, Alterations, &c.. not
chargeable to Loan Account
20,000
0
30,000
0
0
Enforcement of Compulsion and Board
as Local Authority
37,913
0
0
42.253
16
0
Industrial Schools
39,527
0
0
44,754
0
0
Office Expenses
22,967
0
0
35,970
0
0
Intereet and Repayment of Loans
375.221
6
2
409,550
6
10
Legal Expenses (Transfer of Schools and
General Business)
2.000
0
0
4,000
0
0
0
Stamp Duties on Loans and charges of
the County Council and Others
400
0
0
600
0
Contingencies
_
30,000
0
0
1,553,327
3
6
1,960,478
2
10
The recoupments (including Government Grant, and in 1888-9, a surplus
from the previous year) were estimated at £559,443 7s. 4d. for the
year ended 25th March, 1889, and are estimated at only £486,500 for the
year ending the 25th March, 1892. After the adjustment of commencing
balances (a surplus of £66,417 11s. 8d. at Lady-day, 1888, and a defificiency
of £9,196 at Lady-day, 1891), the amounts raised by precepts in
each of these two periods were respectively £1,028,883 16s. 2d., and
£1,483,174 2s. l0d.
The average attendance in the Day Schools for the year ended Ladyday,
1889, was estimated at 354,704 (it was actually only 342,321), and the
average attendance for the year ending Lady-day, 1892, is estimated at
356,451. It will tints be seen that the Ratepayers will be called upon to pay
£454.290 more this year than for the year 1888-9, while the number of
scholars to be educated has increased by only 14,130. Stated in other
words, the charge on the Bates has increased by 44.15 per cent., while the
attendance in the Schools has increased by no more than 4.12 per cent., that
is to say, in the three years the expenditure has increased ten times as rapidly
as the attendance of scholars.
The difference in the Financial Administration between the Board
elected in 1885, and its successor the expiring Board, is very marked, for
whereas the former Board kept its expenditure fairly within the limits
of the Estimate, the latter has each year exceeded its Estimate by a very
considerable amount.